History
2025
03
- BOIM System Launched
2024
10
- Held the 20th Anniversary Symposium of the Medical Research Collaborating Center
2023
03
- Change of MRCC Director (Prof. Hyun-Jae Kang stepped down; Prof. Byung-Chan Lim appointed)
2020
12
- Obtained ECRIN Data Centre Certification Program accreditation
2018
04
- Conducted commissioned training for Vietnamese researchers (field: medical statistics; 3 trainees)
2017
03
- Relocated the center to a consolidated space on the 3rd floor of the College of Medicine Education Building
2016
06
- Change of MRCC Director (Prof. Kyu-Han Kim stepped down; Prof. Hyun-Jae Kang appointed)
2015
07
- Signed a clinical research collaboration MOU with Novartis Korea Ltd.
2014
09
- Held the 10th Anniversary Symposium of the Medical Research Collaborating Center
2013
06
- Change of MRCC Director (Prof. Byung-Joo Park stepped down; Prof. Kyu-Han Kim appointed)
2012
07
- Website renewal
06
- Began research support for 16 sub-projects of off-label drug clinical research (MFDS)
2011
12
- Completed the second phase of PhactaX development
01
- Transferred from the Clinical Research Institute to the Biomedical Research Institute
2010
05
- Began the second phase of PhactaX development
2009
08
- MRCC 5th anniversary review meeting and publication of a user guidebook
07
- Completed development of PhactaX version 1.0
04
- Began scientific review of Boramae IRB protocols
2008
12
- Launched the 1st Medical Statistics Data Analysis course using SPSS
08
- Awarded the Clinical Research Support Center service project under the Korea Health Technology R&D Project
05
- Established the Korea National Enterprise for Clinical Trials academy for training clinical trial specialists (pharmacoepidemiology, medical statistics, data management)
- Introduced a fellowship program in clinical epidemiology, medical statistics, and data management
02
- Organizational transfer and elevation (from a “division” under the Education & Research Department to a “center” under the Clinical Research Institute)
- Signed a research support agreement with Kyung Hee University’s Korean Medicine Clinical Research and Genomics Center
2007
11
- Signed a research support agreement with the Korean College of Helicobacter and Upper Gastrointestinal Research
2006
10
- Established the MRCC’s mission, vision, and core values at the autumn development seminar
09
- Hosted the 1st Advanced Medical Statistics course
2005
06
- Implemented the web-based randomization system
2004
12
- Co-hosted the 6th Hamchun Lecture with the Clinical Trials Center (CTC)
10
- Began IRB protocol review (from the 135th session)
08
- MRCC opening ceremony
- Established Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
- Launched the website (online research support applications and research management)
06
- Approved by the College of Medicine faculty assembly and designated as the Central Research Support Office
03
- Establishment resolved at the 50th hospital board meeting
2003
11
- The “Medical Research Support Organization Establishment Plan” passed the hospital management meeting
10
- Benchmarking of medical research support organizations — Profs. Kyu-Chang Wang, Sung-Tae Hong, and Byung-Joo Park (Univ. of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson Univ., Georgetown Univ., George Washington Univ.)
06
- Special lecture on medical research support organizations by Prof. Brian Strom (Univ. of Pennsylvania)